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Battus

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Registered: 2011-09-24

Posts: 37

How to save partial installation of archboot?

Hi,

I am repeatedly installing archboot LTS x86_64. Still trying to setup a UEFI, GTP, GRUB2 boot.

I'm using the setup script but skipping the last step and installing GRUB2 "by hand".

What I would dearly like to know is how to save the results of those first steps so I don't have to
keep starting afresh (not only does it get boring but it takes a significant amount of time with a network install).

Trouble with using the script is that /tmp/install clearly gets wiped when you restart.

Does anyone have any suggestions please?
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Battus

alphaniner

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From: Ancapistan

Registered: 2010-07-12

Posts: 2,810

Re: How to save partial installation of archboot?

You're doing the repos a disservice if you're downloading the packages over and over.  Find a way to preserve them: save them on another device and copy them over during install, create a dedicated partition to mount at /var/cache/pacman/pkg, nfs share on another machine mounted at /var/.../pkg, etc.

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Battus

Member

Registered: 2011-09-24

Posts: 37

Re: How to save partial installation of archboot?

You're doing the repos a disservice if you're downloading the packages over and over.  Find a way to preserve them: save them on another device and copy them over during install, create a dedicated partition to mount at /var/cache/pacman/pkg, nfs share on another machine mounted at /var/.../pkg, etc.

@alphaniner, I suppose you're right... trouble is the problem at hand was already causing me such a headache, that if I made the situation more complicated still, I would have had to give up...
and I can't imagine that my downloads of "base" from a very local repo were more than a few drops in the ocean.

Never mind, even without encouragment I managed to get my first pure UEFI / GPT / GRUB2 boot a few minutes ago... Hooray!

True the screen went black after ten seconds or so but that looks like a video problem (probably because I have no graphics card).